Can turning vegetarian, help control global warming?

Question

For Mr. PS

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Answer 1

I wish I had a more knowledge about global warming, but I think the vegetables humans eat are not home for many of the animals that are in danger. Besides, vegetables are not    big trees most of the time. Since most of them are small trees we can grow them fast. It neither helps or affects,  my personal opinion.

Answer 2

Yes.

The fact is this: The annual consumption of meat, and meat products world wide causes more global warming than all of the cars, trucks, planes, trains, and any other automobile.

And the methane that cows emit, that contributes too.

Answer 3

I do not see how.

God bless you richly

Answer 4

most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas is methane, and the number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture.

Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together.

The best way to reduce global warming in our lifetimes is to reduce or eliminate our consumption of animal products.

Simply by going vegetarian  we can eliminate one of the major sources of emissions of methane, the greenhouse gas responsible for almost half of the global warming impacting the planet today.

Answer 5

Nature must be left to the way it is going. Just people can stop fishing too much, too much of hunting, too much of burning.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Yes! Factory farms are HUGE contributors to global warming, not to mention animal cruelty.

See the documentary "Earthlings," narrated by Joaquin Phoenix.

Plus, cows and pigs emit a lot of methane gas, and the more you eat, the more demand you create, there for farms will produce more cattle to keep up with demand.

Answer 8

No by eating meat and killing off large populations of animals you are drastically cutting down the methane gas which is emitted in the earths atmosphere and by becoming a vegatarian you are eliminating a lot of plants which take in C02. It's a no win situation.

Answer 9

definitely yes.  the energy spent in producing plant food is much less than producing meat..

also turning vegetarian currently will definitely help in solving food shortage problem that the countries are experiencing now..

Answer 10

I suppose it can - less cows and sheep are eaten so less land is needed and less forests are chopped down to create grazing land

Answer 11

Dont let anyone change who you are and the way you live your life. Im carnivorous and like my steak. If you want nothing but vegetables let that be your choice. DONT let anyone try to scare you into changing for any reason. Global warming is being used to SCARE people. Live your life in fear. Im going to live mine period.

Answer 12

No! It's not cause by our eating habits.

Answer 13

yes i think it will help some,  and one have  to be aware, of our vegatables and fruits also, because they are adding quimicals, and whatever they want to , and  this no one really knows  how they do these things, so we are  under the woods still  when it come towards our grains, fruits and vegetables, and  yes, we can cut down an the methane that they  give to the  cows and pigs.     God - bless!.

Answer 14

Nope, by eating meat such as sheep and cows, you reduce the number of cows, and thus, how much methane they emit into the atmosphere.

Answer 15

yeah its possible

Answer 16

Probably not!

Answer 17

I have herd that it does help control global warming. It is also a fact that if people stop eating meat the money that would b saved would b enough to feed all the hungry of the world.

anyway I do not eat beef or pork.Though I am not giving up eating chicken,fish or eggs.

Answer 18

YES, to some extent it can be CONTROLLED.

Man produces more carbon-di-oxide in burning oil, gas coal etc

Reduce meat eating and burn less fuel.

Answer 19

Yes , if u turn into vegitarian you need to grow more and more plants. So, it will really help to control the global warming. And it is a good idea Too...!!!

Answer 20

i dono but im vegetarian!

Answer 21

We are doomed either way with the kind of vegetarian or non-vegetarian available to-day! vegetarian stuff are ruined by GM seeds and pesticide contents in them both are harmful/toxic to the user and the environment. Non-vegetarian stuffs are spoilt by hormone induced growth of animals for speed and yield and thereby ruining human body and the atmosphere(increased growth of such animals, especially cattle and the gas they emit is the major cause of global warming). Where is natural seeds reared without pesticides, organically grown and harvested? If you can get that, surely, we can control global warming.

Answer 22

but it actually do not depend on bieng veg/non veg.but becoming a vegetarian is very good&healthy bcoz we have no right to kill animals. if we are vegetarian ecological balance will be maintained.

Answer 23

People liked Miss P that answered your question should be ashamed of themselves. This person is some sort of smart ****, misinfomed lout or worse.

That sort of caustic and nonsensical answer has no place in reasonable, intelligent discussions.

The answer is  yes, it will have some impact because it takes so much oil to cultivate the crops that the edible animals eat and more oil to transport them to market.

It is much more efficent to  just eat the plants instead of growning the plants to feed to a cow and then haul his big buttocks to the grocery and you will be much cleaner inside and not have blood dripping down your chin.

Answer 24

It's great if your body can do it. We could grow more on less land and feed more people well also. But most bodies need some meat.

Answer 25

No livestock eat plants also, so toss that concept out . It's not eating meat, but as one poster stated it's the processing/manufacturing methods used, that poses the problem. Another misconception is that plants aren't a carbon based organism. This a example of a little applied science going a long way.

ed: Only 1% of methane reaches the atmosphere due to microbial degradation. The only increase has been in nitrates used for agriculture. CO2 levels have fallen by 1% and O2 levels have stayed realitivey constant for 2 billion years. My suggestion is to do your own fact finding. And forget the hype. Okay talk to a beet...? Is anyone alive here?

Answer 26

no.

global warming has nothing to do with humanity, let alone one human.

If you want to be a vegetarian, that's fine, but you're just as paranoid and loony as the global warming n***s if you try to build a tenuous link between your behavior and the temperature of the atmosphere.